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Heyday Books
February 2006
On Sale: February 1, 2006
244 pages
ISBN: 1597140287
EAN: 9781597140287
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Non-Fiction
During World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval
munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay.
Black seamen were required to load ammunition onto ships
bound for the South Pacific under the watch of their white
officersan incredibly dangerous and physically challenging
task. On July 17, 1944, an explosion rocked the base,
killing 320 men202 of whom were black ammunition loaders.
In the ensuing weeks, white officers were given leave time
and commended for heroic efforts, whereas 328 of the
surviving black enlistees were sent to load ammunition on
another ship. When they refused, fifty men were singled
out and chargedand convictedof mutiny. It was the largest
mutiny trial in U.S. naval history. First published in 1989,
The Port Chicago Mutiny is a thorough and riveting work of
civil rights literature, and with a new preface and epilogue
by the author emphasize the events relevance today. More
than a mutiny trial, the incident raises questions about the
powers of the military, about the prosecution of civil
disobedience, and about the rights of the individual.
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